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Last night Brad ate our last cookie, so we decided to go our to find a new supply.  (Jeff told me my blog had a lot of food references, but finding food sources has been a major focus of our first weeks in China.)  We walked outside and immediately felt the wall of humidity that has hovered over Nanjing pretty much since we got here.  As I've mentioned before, we live right on the campus of Nanjing University, in fact, we are surrounded by upper classmen dorms.  The streets and sidewalks were filled with students, most carrying small baskets filled with shampoo, toiletries and towels, all wearing flipflops and pajamas. 

We realized that we live right next to the building that houses all the showers for the surrounding dorms.  Apparently, the dorms don't have showers, so the students have to walk to the "shower building."  Depending on which way they were going, the students either had wet hair or looked like they were about to have wet hair.  We were surrounded with clean and soon-to-be-clean young people.  If your kids are living in dorms in the U.S., tell them not to complain about having to walk down the hall to shower!

We thought about just letting our video camera capture the experience, but we thought better of it.  I took a walk today to chronicle the experience, but you'll have to use your imagination to picture the hundreds of students milling around in the dark last night.

The shower building, minus the showering students. (not quite as exciting)

Upper classmen dorms, compute with outdoor  clothes "dryers."